Wilderness Quotes

There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.

When the late Bishop was appointed, about thirty-two years ago, to diffuse the light of the Gospel through this extensive portion of His Majesty's dominions, it was even a greater spiritual, than a natural wilderness.

Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.

None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.

For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness designation issues in Central Idaho.

Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether.

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

I'm 40 next year and I'm very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses.

Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.

Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.

Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits.